Next year it will be 60 years since the start of serial production in Nizhny Tagil of the medium T-62. These tanks were produced in a "circulation" of 20,000 units.

The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense announced on December 17 that in November 2021, the Defense Materiel Agency (DMA) under the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense signed a contract for the purchase of 356 vehicles from the Dutch Armed Forces.

During the exercises of the units and formations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Payambar-e Azam-17 ("The Great Prophet-17"), a tank was first seen, very similar to the Karrar first introduced back in 2016.

However, it is reported that this is not a completely new model, but one of the deeply modernized T-72M used in the troops.

JSC "GOZ" (St. Petersburg) has registered in Rospatent an industrial model of an electric vehicle of the SUV class, as well as seven more industrial samples of the nodal elements of the interior and exterior of the electric vehicle, the press service of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region, which includes the enterprise, reports.

The Chinese company Unitree Robotics has equipped its four-legged robot with a robotic arm. It can lift up to five kilograms of cargo and helps the robot interact with the environment, for example, open doors.

Russian RPG-30 "Hook" rocket-propelled anti-tank grenade launchers were shown at an exhibition demonstrating the combat arsenal of the Vietnamese People's Army. On one of the stands, among other ammunition, there was a 105-mm shot and a small-sized rocket-a target simulator.

In the Rostov region, training camps for snipers of the Southern Military District were held at the Kadamovsky training ground. The servicemen practiced new tactical techniques based on the experience of modern local conflicts.

The new dock is one of the largest in the world, its dimensions (480 by 114 meters, depth - 14 meters) allow you to build vessels of any size and complexity.

In seven years, the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been transformed. If in 2014 its capabilities could not be called outstanding, now it is a formidable force. And it's not even about new ships and coastal batteries. The main factor of the strength of the Black Sea Fleet lies in another, writes Forbes.

The Novosibirsk combat missile carrier, developed at the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise (Sevmash, Severodvinsk), belongs to the class of new multipurpose submarines of the Yasen project.

MT Rubin Central Design Bureau: the increase in the cost of submarines leads to a reduction in their number

The need to avoid the rise in the cost of the life cycle of submarines can be considered the main global trend of the last decades in the relevant industry, Igor Vilnit, General Director of the Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT) "Rubin", told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

MT Rubin Central Design Bureau: the TK-208 Dmitry Donskoy submarine is in good condition

Igor Vilnit, General Director of the Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT) Rubin, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, revealed the condition of the heavy nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine TK-208 Dmitry Donskoy of Project 941 Shark.

Americans will build robotic stingrays of two types. On December 21, the press service of the Agency for Advanced Defense Projects (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense announced the signing of a contract with Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Martin Defense Group to develop prototypes of underwater drones.

The share of modern weapons in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has exceeded 71%, in the nuclear forces - 89%, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

We are talking about contracts for up to 10 years

Long-term contracts for the supply of weapons and equipment to the troops in 2021 amounted to 83%. This was announced on Tuesday by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu at an expanded meeting of the board of the military department.

A number of innovations are being introduced to implement the measures of the state armament program and the state defense order, the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu, said at an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The President of Russia, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, within the framework of the expanded board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, examined new samples of domestic military equipment and means of control of military units.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu named priority tasks for equipping the army next year. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Dmitry Kornev commented on the plans of the defense department.

Special attention should be paid to strengthening the defense capability of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, the Russian leader noted

The Russian Federation should develop military and military-technical cooperation with the SCO and CSTO countries, strengthen the security of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense.

The Russian Federation will continue to pay increased attention to the development of the Armed Forces. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin at an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on December 21.